I saw the project on cats, and wondered what would be scarier.
Will birds be more afraid of fox stuffed animals, or cat stuffed animals.
There is a lot of rain the first week, I'm hoping that birds will come to the feeder today, and I can start this week, because pretty much 0 birds have been coming. The second week some birds came, but the third and fourth weeks were when I got my data.
All kinds of birds came, not just specific kinds
Hypothesis I think that the birds will be more afraid of the cat then of the fox, because the cat sits still more, and the fox not as much, the bird feeder will have the same kind of food, will be the same color, and so on, for the entire time. I think the time of day might affect when the birds come. Maybe they can't see as well at night so they either come because they can't see the stuffed animal, or don't come because they can't see. But the cat is less realistic than the fox, so maybe that will factor In.
Materials/Methods
I will be using one bird feeder, I got a cat, and a fox, stuffed animal they will be perched they will be on a railing next to the bird feeder. I will be measuring the bird seed every day to see how much it has gone down.
I think that the birds will be more afraid of a cat because they sit still more when they hunt.
Notes:
I will take the stuffed animals, and put one on by the bird feeder, the fox the first week, the cat the second, they are the same color facing the same way, just about the same size, so the only changed thing is the kind of stuffed animal. I thought a fox, because they are both kind of the same size, and they hunt about the same. It didn't rain much and I got good data, I think this was a successful experiment.
I found that there was more food in the bird feeder when the cat was up than the fox, my hypothesis was correct, there were really no specific birds that visited the feeder, not really many came, they came mostly at night also.
My pictures couldn't go on, I will put them up tonight, they keep coming up blank.
My pictures finally came through, I had to email them to myself, and change stuff around
I kept looking but couldn't find why the birds came at night, and if they normally do that.
I found that I can't use the dog because a dog will not sit still while hunting, so I had to do a fox and a cat, because both will naturally sit still and wait for prey to come.
I think maybe if anyone was to do a future research, they would use multiple bird feeders, and a wide range of stuffed animals, to really see how birds react.
Final Comments
I found that my hypothesis was proven to be consistent with the data, the birds were more afraid of the cat because cats sit still when hunting and foxes don't as much, I was totally correct.
Independent Variable: The Stuffed Animal
Dependent Variable: How many birds came, and how timid they were to come, also what time of day.
Will A Bird Be More Afraid Of A Fox, Or A Cat?
Hypothesis
I think that the birds will be more afraid of the cat then of the fox, because the cat sits still more, and the fox not as much, the bird feeder will have the same kind of food, will be the same color, and so on, for the entire time. I think the time of day might affect when the birds come. Maybe they can't see as well at night so they either come because they can't see the stuffed animal, or don't come because they can't see. But the cat is less realistic than the fox, so maybe that will factor In.
Materials/Methods
Notes:
I found that I can't use the dog because a dog will not sit still while hunting, so I had to do a fox and a cat, because both will naturally sit still and wait for prey to come.
I think maybe if anyone was to do a future research, they would use multiple bird feeders, and a wide range of stuffed animals, to really see how birds react.
Final Comments
I found that my hypothesis was proven to be consistent with the data, the birds were more afraid of the cat because cats sit still when hunting and foxes don't as much, I was totally correct.
Independent Variable: The Stuffed Animal
Dependent Variable: How many birds came, and how timid they were to come, also what time of day.
Bibliography:
http://www.easybib.com/cite/view/list/1442971940_560201249ac9d1.35851476/style/mla7